VPN Client

[samuraijack]

Hi people,

Installed Fedora 10 and loving it. Now I need to get some work done using it.

Using kernel 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.

I need 3 things;

1. VPN Client (Windows I use Cisco VPN Client) - I've tried to install the Linux version of it but fails horribly. According to the readme, its not supported for kernels older than 2.6.22.

2. Remote Desktop (Used Windows Remote Desktop)

3. SSH client/utility

Please help. Still learning, so compiling from source is a bit confusing. yum is fine though.

Thanks!

[whych]

vnc server comes standard with most linux distros. You can either use rdp or vnc as a client.

[Rubberman]

vnc server comes standard with most linux distros. You can either use rdp or vnc as a client.

VNC will do the remote desktop services you need. As for the others, there is OpenVPN, which as far as I know works just fine. I have had plans to install and run it on my system so I can tunnel in with my laptop when I'm on the road, but I haven't got a round tuit as yet... . You can run VNC over that if you want.

As for client software, OpenVPN should have client software, and client-side ssh is native on just about any Linux distribution - certainly it is on Fedora and Ubuntu.

[samuraijack]

Thanks people,

I kinda need a simple howto if possible to use whats available to fedora 10 like vnc. Do I have to set up a tunnel manually? Are these GUIs? Bit of direction.

Is it possible to yum install openvpn?

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Found this Howto for OpenVPN.Kinda complicated hey. Is there nothing as simple as cisco vpn?

There is a OpenVPN gui available, but you still got to go through the normal procedure of configuring openvpn as in the Howto.

[Rubberman]

Thanks people,

I kinda need a simple howto if possible to use whats available to fedora 10 like vnc. Do I have to set up a tunnel manually? Are these GUIs? Bit of direction.

Is it possible to yum install openvpn?

Yes, yum can install OpenVPN, provided your registered repositories carry it. I know that yum on my CentOS (RHEL) 5 system does, and it has been installed (by me).

As for complicated configuration, well it is free... I think the OpenVPN team is more concerned with robust functionality than idiot-friendly management tools, not that I would complain if there were some!

[samuraijack]

1. VPN - OpenVPN
2. Remote desktop - VNC
3. SSH VNC as well?

With OpenVPN, I just want to use it as a client, is it necessary to set up the server? I need to connect to my work's network and the remote desktop to a windows server 2003 environment or SSH into linux server.

I feel that i'm a bit beyond my level already...

[Rubberman]

With OpenVPN, I just want to use it as a client, is it necessary to set up the server? I need to connect to my work's network and the remote desktop to a windows server 2003 environment or SSH into linux server.

I don't know. In my package manager listing there is only one entry for openvpn. For openssh there is a separate client listing for systems that only want client ssh services, but apparently not for openvpn. However, there is a client for cisco vpn's called vpnc. I think that is what you are looking for?

[coopstah13]

This site has helped me get the proprietary cisco vpn client to work on my linux machine: [projects.tuxx-home.at]

Follow instructions on that page, I personally have had no luck using vpnc.

Also, to connect to windows machines using rdp, you can use rdesktop, there is a gnome front end to it, it is called Remotedesktop Client.

[samuraijack]

Thanks people.

I have managed to get rdesktop working well. I will try to install the cisco vpn client using the instrucs from the site.

If not..try vnc.

and a simple SSH client? like putty. I usually use ZOC on windows.

[Rubberman]

Thanks people.

I have managed to get rdesktop working well. I will try to install the cisco vpn client using the instrucs from the site.

If not..try vnc.

and a simple SSH client? like putty. I usually use ZOC on windows.

Linux comes with an ssh client by default. It is named ssh of course! FWIW, it stores your certificates and such in the directory ~/.ssh